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barack obama on el paso, dayton shootings: reject racism from leaders

WASHINGTON  Former President Barack Obama responded Monday to back-to-back mass shootings Texas and Ohio over the weekend, calling for gun laws and for  Americans to reject language coming from our nation's leaders that feeds climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments in United States. .. ..

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'we have a long way to go:' descendants of first black americans on

Brenda Tucker, descendent of one of the first black Americans William Tucker whose parents were brought from Angola on the first ship carrying enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619, pays her respects at grave at Tucker family Hampton, Virginia, U.S., July 27, 2019. ..

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Democrat-led House has passed gun control bill that includes fixes to the background check system, and it has languished in GOP-controlled Senate.. ... Democrat in Senate, Chuck Schumer, urged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to call session to put House-passed bill on background checks..

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after inf treaty's demise, u.s. seeks funds for missile tests

Democrat on House Armed Services Committee, Representative Adam Smith, has opposed U.S pullout from the treaty... Withdrawing from the treaty would allow Putin to deflect responsibility and blame U.S for both the treaty's collapse and any ensuing arms race, in earlier this year also penned by..

the incredible shrinking gop

California Assemblyman Brian Maienschein cited Trump and the party's overall right-wing drift as factors when he joined Democrats January. So did Andy McKean, Republican in Iowa legislature, when he defected April.. ..

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